Second quantization

Advanced Quantum Mechanics (Fall, 2013)

Lecture Playlist

  1. Review of quantum mechanics and introduction to symmetry

  2. Symmetry groups and degeneracy

  3. Atomic orbits and harmonic oscillators

  4. Spin

  5. Fermions: a tale of two minus signs

  6. Quantum field theory

  7. Quantum field theory 2

  8. Second quantization

  9. Quantum field Hamiltonian

  10. Fermions and the Dirac equation

November 11, 2013

Professor Susskind answers a question about neutrino mixing and relates the oscillating quantum states of a neutrino to a precessing electron spin in a magnetic field.  He then discusses a recent article about whether an electron is a sphere.  After these topics, Professor Susskind continues the previous discussion about second quantization, and demonstrates that the position and momentum creation and annihilation operators are Fourier conjugates of each other.

Topics: 
  • Neutrino mixing
  • Second quantization
  • Fourier conjugates